T. writes:<\/p>\n
I love the name Dahlia. …I pronounce it like “dally-uh” (“dal” rhyming with “pal”). However, I know some people pronounce the name “dolly-uh” (and I hate the name pronounced that way). So… which is correct? Or IS there a correct pronunciation? Is it a regional thing? I live in the midwest.<\/p>\n
Thanks!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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As with Madeline and Caroline and Helena, I find I can simultaneously accept several pronunciations. If I encountered a Dahlia or Dalia on a piece of paper and needed to say it aloud to the person in question, I would say “Dolly-uh, Dally-uh?” And there’s also the issue of whether it’s more like Doll\/Dal-lee-uh or more like Doll\/Dal-yuh. In short, I wouldn’t be surprised by a variety of possible pronunciations.<\/p>\n
The Baby Name Wizard<\/a> has both Dahlia and Dalia as Dolly-uh. Forvo<\/a> has four English samples; two of them say dolly-uh, one says dally-uh, and one (the British one) says day-lee-uh. Howjsay<\/a> has day-lee-uh in what sounds like a British accent. Inogolo<\/a> has doll-yuh. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary<\/a> has dal-yuh, and mentions that day-lee-uh is usually British.<\/p>\n
I think we should have a poll below to find out how most people would say it. Notice that in addition to the separate doll and dal-rhymes-with-pal options, I also included an option for knowing BOTH doll and dal-rhymes-with-pal, since those seem to both be American English pronunciations.<\/p>\n
[yop_poll id=”11″]<\/p>\n
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T. writes: I love the name Dahlia. …I pronounce it like “dally-uh” (“dal” rhyming with “pal”). However, I know some people pronounce the name “dolly-uh” (and I hate the name pronounced that way). So… which is correct? Or IS there a correct pronunciation? Is it a regional thing? I live in the midwest. Thanks! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1XF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7543"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7551,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7543\/revisions\/7551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}